1. B.A., Amherst College,1982; Honorary Doctor of Laws, 2007.
2. That would be Foster Furcolo, who appointed Benjamin Smith, JFK’s former Harvard College roomate, to the Senate on December 27, 1960 to keep the seat warm for Ted Kennedy in 1962.
3. Not in modern times. But there was a close call in 1944 when Governor Leverett Saltonstall seriously considered doing so when Henry Cabot Lodge resigned to join the military. Instead he ran for the seat himself in a special election in 1945 and then served until 1967. Salty always was a class guy.
4. How about Michael Dukakis? During his first term (1975-78) Dukakis was cited for illegally taking oysters on Cape Cod. He paid a fine. (Can anyone can supply more details of this delicious incident? It was notably un-shellfish all around.)
5. Mitt Romney. Please shoot me.
6. William Weld, of course. As U.S. Attorney in the early 1980s Weld led a number of high-profile prosecutions of political corruption including Senate Ways and Means Chair James Kelly. Weld beat John Silber for governor in 1990. Weld should have (but not say) that “Political corruption has Massachusetts under a cloud. But fortunately for me that cloud has a Silber lining.”
Sorry! It’s Patrick Fitzgerald.
For #4, James Michael Curley could be said to have “run afoul of law enforcement” during his 1935-7 stint as Governor — Wikipedia says:
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p>Curley ran for Governor of Massachusetts in 1934, and this time he won, having lost in 1924. Over the course of his term, Curley’s extravagant personal spending and expensive vacations showed, however, that he had lost touch with his constituents. A series of scandals rocked his administration, including the involvement of his state limousine in several traffic accidents, the alleged sale of pardons to state convicts, and the appointment of scores of poorly qualified individuals to public offices.
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p>More famously, Curley continued serving as Mayor of Boston while serving time on federal influence-peddling charges from 1947 through 1949.
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p>I was a year ahead of Patrick Fitzgerald at Amherst, though I did not know him well.
Former state Senator and Gubernatorial candidate Warren Tolman, Esq. was a Lord Jeffrey class of ’82, too.
Warren started in our class but finished in ’82 — I remember him from freshman economics. The most successful politician in our class is certainly His Serene Highness Albert Alexandre Grimaldi, the prince of Monaco, but we also boast unsuccessful candidates for NH-Gov (Mark Fernald, twice), IN-Lt. Gov (George Witwer), and DA-equivalent for Minneapolis (Andrew Luger). Outside the US, we had a President of El Salvador (Francisco Flores) as well as Albert.